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I see... Hmmm... I see a lot of volumes of SAO but I doubt if those will focus on the two... thanks!!!!

Spoiler for Future Novel Content:

1, 3 and 4 are all about Asuna and Kirito getting together and staying together, this is the main story the anime will cover. Volume 2 is side stories that take place in between the time skip that happened in volume 1. There are other SAO side stories that also take place in this time skip.

Volumes 5 and 6 are about a series of weird incidents in a new VR game, Volume 7 is for the most part about Asuna's development. Volume 8 is more side stories and Volume 9 starts the final arc.

but How much I can ascertain is that Aincrad arc is barely done 75 floors and Reki's original web novel taken down? with the remaining doujin works AKA material stories left to be either recognized or published so we might be going back to Aincrad days after Alicization arc is over after 5-6 volumes.
PS i have to give thanks to those people who edited the tvtropes entry on SAO which I have started some years ago

He will also include the side stories and sort out any conflicting points in the story, so when Sword Art Online: Progressive is finished the Aincrad arc can be considered 'complete'.

Spoiler for 75 floors:

If I understand your point with 75 floors and the web novel correctly, the reason Aincrad was cleared at 75th floor is because they defeated the final boss. I didn't read the web novel, but from what I heard and know the web novel ended in a similar way, they didn't reach the 100th floor, the last boss was defeated earlier. At least there shouldn't have been a major change in the first volume and web novel 1.

Excuse me, this has been bugging me for a while. I don't read the novels, but I've heard that SAO actually only comprises the first volume and several side stories later on, with the story moving on to other games. And (this is the part that bugs me the most) the death game removed.

If so, what is the underlying theme of this story? What is the main conflict/ point of interest to justify continuing the story after Aincrad arc?

You know, like how .Hack series deals with epitaphs and AIs and comatose players, To Aru deals with all that science and magic mumbo jumbo, things like that.

EDIT: not sure, but if this post is too spoilerific, please just add the tags mods, thanks.

Actually, this was answered ~2 weeks ago in the LN discussion thread by Netto Azure, he summarizes the themes pretty well.Courtesy of Netto Azure

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Originally Posted by Netto Azure

SAO Arc: Life and Death, the Boundaries of Real Life and Virtual Life
ALO Arc: Greed, Love and Dedication. Plus Familial relationships.
GGO Arc: Power and isolation.
Mother's Rosario Arc: Applications of technology in the Medical Field.
Alicization Arc: Artificial Intelligence, The Military and the meaning of the Human Soul itself.

The unifying theme of the entire series is whether or not VR can become "real" for the players, and how that can be both a good and a bad thing. The death game makes that particularly obvious, but the theme carries over. The next two arcs are also the direct aftermath of the SAO incident. IE: what happens to the people released into the real world after being stuck in a game for years.